[SOLVED] Security&Privacy-Preferences issue

Posted 22 July 2012 - 04:01 PM

napster-grey

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Hi there,

on my freshly installed and with Time Machine restored ML GM I am experiencing problems accessing the Security and Privacy-panel in the preferences. Every other section like Dock, Mail, iCloud, Network, etc. are working properly.
But when I am trying to visit the Security it just shows "Loading Security..." in the upper bar in the Preferences window and stands still at the overview, even after 10 mins it won't get loaded.

Posted 22 July 2012 - 04:03 PM

Posted 22 July 2012 - 04:07 PM

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Same issue with a HP Probook 4530s, look in console for the error message.
Upgraded from Lion, same process as my main rig which is working fine, only difference is a patched AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement on the Probook for SandyBridge.
Repaired permissions, no difference.

Posted 22 July 2012 - 04:43 PM

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I had both Time Machine and Migration Assistant foul up numerous permissions, many of which are not addressed using Disk Utility's repair. Try using Onyx and have it also reset home folder ACLs. Have no idea why, but Migration Assistant even managed to change permissions on "/" which diskutil won't fix and will cause serious issues

Posted 22 July 2012 - 07:01 PM

Posted 22 July 2012 - 07:38 PM

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you can also have onyx find bad plists in /L/Preferences but I had to remove a couple from ~/L/Preferences manually I believe security tab settings are in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist and not a separate plist

Using the com.apple.SystemPreferences.plist from a working mac made no difference, though it did enable the bluetooth prefpane so I guess that's a bonus.Here's the new console log for opening the Security & Privacy prefpane:

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Posted 24 July 2012 - 07:07 PM

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When you copy system preference files manually, the ownership and file permissions can be changed as well and puts you right back in the same boat. 9 times out of 10 if you just delete the plist, a new one will be recreated automatically the next time you launch that app, or in this case prefpane, and other than maybe needing to reapply a setting or two that was changed back to default, it should start behaving normal.

Posted 24 July 2012 - 07:53 PM

Posted 01 August 2012 - 08:47 AM

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I have same problems, and i don't think it's already solved. Upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion. Security panel was not loading. I did try your plist, and it helped loading, although still not fluid. And the biggest problem is, something is still crashing permanently in an endless loop. Console is getting filled up constantly and my CPU is never idle. It should be related to Location Services. I unticked that so it should not be running, but its still trying to do something.

Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:15 AM

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Oook. com.apple.UserEventAgent-Aqua was the name of the process making the problems(restarting and crashing every 10 seconds).
I moved the file com.apple.UserEventAgent-Aqua.plist into a backup folder from /System/Library/LaunchAgents/
Now it does not respawn again
Also i noticed mds was going all the time and eating cpu. That is the Spotlight Indexer process. I had to put my ntfs drives into Spotlight's Do Not Search settings, and now it stopped, cpu is cooling back !
The Security Settings and the Privacy tab is still not fluid, but it doesn't matter anymore.

Posted 01 August 2012 - 06:07 PM

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the "helper partitions" only apply to RAID-0 so you will always see kextd look for them, if not using RAID then it won't find them and move on, if booting from RAID, it will acquire a lock on them and rebuild their caches